Special Session 61: 

Nonlinear Filtering with Levy processes

Erika E Hausenblas
Montanuniversitaet Leoben
Austria
Co-Author(s):    Erika Hausenblas, Pani Fernando
Abstract:
The objective in stochastic filtering is to reconstruct the information about an unobserved (random) process, called the signal process, given the current available observations of a certain noisy transformation of that process, called observation process. Usually $X$ and $Y$ are modeled by stochastic differential equations driven by a Brownian motion or a jump (or L\`evy) process. We are interested in the situation where both the state process $X$ and the observation process $Y$ are perturbed by coupled Levy processes. In the talk we first present some theoretical results. More precisely, we consider the situation where $L=(L_1,L_2)$ is a $2$--dimensional Levy process in which the structure of dependence is described by a Levy copula. $L_1$ appears in the signal process, $L_2$ appears in the observation process. Secondly, we introduce the approximation of the density by a particle system.